{"id":1095,"date":"2007-07-27T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/ceo-compensation\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:07:01","slug":"ceo-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/ceo-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO-bashing that has occurred regarding their compensation is a sore spot for me &#8211; especially since the criticism is leveled by people who have never spent a single day as a CEO.&nbsp; Now I catch up to this Foxnews.com story &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,290894,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Highest-Paid Star; Simon Cowell a Distant Number Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how much Oprah makes per year?<\/p>\n<p>$260 Million.&nbsp; A year!<\/p>\n<p>Where is the outrage?&nbsp; If I am not mistaken, Oprah is the CEO of her production company.&nbsp; This number is her salary &#8211; what about her benefits and perks?&nbsp; <strong>The second highest television salary is $215 MILLION less than her salary!<\/strong>&nbsp; The mainstream media goes to great length to report these figures for CEO&#8217;s of publicly-traded&nbsp;companies, but I have a suspicion that they will turn a blind eye to this one.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I say kudos to Oprah for running a highly successful company and I am glad that the market demand for her allows her to make this type of salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO-bashing that has occurred regarding their compensation is a sore spot for me &#8211; especially since the criticism is leveled by people who have never spent a single day as a CEO.&nbsp; Now I catch up to this Foxnews.com story &#8211; Oprah Highest-Paid Star; Simon Cowell a Distant Number Two. Do you know how much Oprah makes per year? $260 Million.&nbsp; A year! Where is the outrage?&nbsp; If I am not mistaken, Oprah is the CEO of her production company.&nbsp; This number is her salary &#8211; what about her benefits and perks?&nbsp; The second highest television salary is $215 MILLION less than her salary!&nbsp; The mainstream media goes to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/ceo-compensation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->